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Neha Kukreja

Hillary Clinton on Medical Marijuana and Drug Policy - 0 views

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  • It is unfair to urge people to get rid of their addiction and not have the treatment facilities when people finally makes up their minds to get treatment.
    • Neha Kukreja
       
      Here, Clinton's suggesting funding for addiction treatment facilities to crack down on our insatiable demand for drugs. 
Ellen Mischinski

http://www.wcl.american.edu/hrbrief/16/3brewer.pdf?rd=1 - 0 views

    • Ellen Mischinski
       
      p.11, paragraph 2 and on. Survey of Mexican residents says that military stuff isn't working
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      "wholesale illicit drug proceeds [in the US] reach tens of billions of dollars each year. As long as this demand exists, drugs will continue to flow north regardless of the level of deterrence that the security forces deploy."
    • Ellen Mischinski
       
      Clinton's words, "Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs [in the U.S.] fuels the drug trade."3
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    • Ellen Mischinski
       
      The U.S. must instead prioritize domestic demand reduction and halt the flow of assault weapons over the border if it is to cease exporting both the motive and the means for violent drug trafficking to Mexico.
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      1 Yet an examination of the current Mexican and regional context leads to the conclusion that without a paradigm shift in design, the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars earmarked for the Mérida Initiative and other anti-drug aid to Mexico will fuel a dysfunctional approach to public security-one that is characterized by widespread human rights violations within the framework of an ineffective war against criminals that has not reduced drug-related violence.
    • Ellen Mischinski
       
      One could argue that the United States can avoid fueling human rights violations in Mexico by withholding funding from certain military or police units shown to be responsible for such abuses or by waiting to disburse assistance until Mexico has met certain human rights requirements.
    • Ellen Mischinski
       
      In addition to these concerns, the consistently ineffective track record of frontal-combat approaches to reducing drug trafficking leave little doubt that supporting such an approach now will not end the drug trade, despite any short-term increases in the number of arrests or amount of drugs seized
    • Ellen Mischinski
       
      In February 2009, the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, composed of leading political figures including former Presidents of Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil, issued its conclusions on this subject. It strongly criticized as ineffective the U.S.-led drug war paradigm of the past 30 years and called for a public health approach to drug policy centered on treatment and demand reduction.
Neha Kukreja

Mexico Debate Resolution - 19 views

-Value to be promoted: peace and stability -Actor: The United States Government -Action: 1.shift funding for military/ military equipment for Mexico to substance abuse treatment and prevention prog...

Ellen Mischinski

http://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/policy-review/2011v4/content/merida-initiative.pdf - 1 views

    • Ellen Mischinski
       
      The United States has five percent of the world's population, yet it has seventeen percent of the world's drug addicts
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       the closure of methamphetamine labs in the United States has led to significant increases of methamphetamine production in Mexico
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      after President Calderon's declaration of a war on drugs, an estimated 28,228 drug trade related deaths have been reported.
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    • Ellen Mischinski
       
      A paradigm shift will be necessary to lessen violence in Mexico. The Obama administration's approach of collaboration and shared responsibility is a welcome departure from that of past administrations, but insufficient attention is given by it to the problem of US demand for drugs. The United States has five percent of the world's population, yet it has seventeen percent of the world's drug addicts. US drug policy should reflect these numbers. The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reported that the closure of methamphetamine labs in the United States has led to significant increases of methamphetamine production in Mexico. Rather than a decline in the quantity of methamphetamines, production has simple moved to a new location.40 Counterdrug programs must focus on and fund drug addiction eradication programs and anti-drug education with the zeal demonstrated by counternarcotics military operations in order to effectively reduce drug demand and drug violence. This approach would meet the criteria of lessening demand and reducing supply in the long run; by attacking drug demand, drug supply would be significantly affected over time
Neha Kukreja

National Drug Threat Summary - National Drug Threat Assessment 2009 (UNCLASSIFIED) - 0 views

  •   In September 2008 there were nearly 100,000 inmates in federal prisons convicted and sentenced for drug offenses, representing more than 52 percent of all federal prisoners.
    • Neha Kukreja
       
      Wow.... just wow..... is it possible to even argue against how prevalant drug abuse in the US is with this stat? More than half the 2008 American federal prisoners were jalied on account of convicition of drug offenses!!
  • For 2009 the federal government has allocated more than $14 billion for drug treatment and prevention, counterdrug law enforcement, drug interdiction, and international counterdrug assistance.
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    • Neha Kukreja
       
      So we can already see a shift in funding that began in 2009......
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